grown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 已长成的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So you would carpet your room or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband with representations of flowers, would you?'
-- As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
-- But if, when you're grown up and married and well off, you come upon any horthe-riding ever, don't be hard upon it, don't be croth with it, give it a Bethpeak if you can, and think you might do wurth.
-- But since I have been looking at it, I have been wondering about you and me, grown up.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the meal was over, the children disappeared, whilst the grown people sat around the fireplace, on which was placed turf, heather, cow dung and dried fish-bones.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Connie, since she was really outside of it, and since she had grown numb to the thrill of it, it was again nothingness.
-- It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown togeth-er into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying.
-- 'The world has grown pale with thy breath.'
-- But gradu-ally, as she came to the bottom of him, to use her own term, she found he was like the rest, a baby grown to man's pro-portions: but a baby with a queer temper and a fine manner and power in its control, and all sorts of odd knowledge that she had never dreamed of, with which he could still bully her.
-- She's grown heavy, and more common than ever, and as strong as a bull.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her original timidity had grown with this concealment, and her light step and her little figure shunned the thronged streets while they passed along them.
-- He has been there so long!I never saw him outside, but I can understand that he must have grown different in some things since.'
-- 'When Maggy was ten years old,' said Little Dorrit, watching her face while she spoke, 'she had a bad fever, sir, and she has never grown any older ever since.'
-- Though it was evidently in the grain of his character, and of his respect for his own case, that he should abstain from idle murmuring, it was evident that he had grown the older, the sterner, and the poorer, for his long endeavour.
-- Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.
-- exclaimed Meg, who felt grown up already, having just reached sev-enteen.
-- Her face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety, but I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is lower.
-- Beth has grown slender, pale, and more quiet than ever.
-- You have grown abominably lazy, you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respect-ed by wise ones.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood!They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
-- There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom of the ocean.
-- This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days after, lo!at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it, once more it disappeared as if it had never been.
-- To mention but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a bow-window some five feet long.
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